Цитаты из книги автора Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

We drank in long, greedy swallows.
“I read somewhere that the sun’s getting hotter every year,” said Tom genially. “It seems that pretty soon the earth’s going to fall into the sun – or waft a minute – it’s just the opposite – the sun’s getting colder every year.”

was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men

a great deal more than that.

if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.

It was indirectly due to Cody that Gatsby drank so little. Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.

they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality

One thing’s sure and nothing’s surer
The rich get richer and the poor get – children.

“I love it, but I don’t see how you live there all alone.”
“I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people.”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever